Portman lags behind Democrats in fundraising

Monday

Apr 22, 2013 at 12:01 AMApr 22, 2013 at 5:12 PM

Democrats out-raise Republicans in Senate campaign cash.

Senate Democrats raised $2 million more in campaign cash in March than Senate Republicans, whose fundraising efforts are being led by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. According to campaign finance reports, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee collected $5.2 million last month compared to just $3.2 million for the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.

For the first quarter of this year, Senate Democrats raised $13.7 million, which was twice as much as Senate Republicans raised.

Aides to Portman, who has a reputation as a skilled fundraiser, said that the Senate Republicans improved their campaign cash collection each month of this year "as a brand new fund-raising team has been put together and is hitting the ground.''